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Brute
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words
translated "brute" in the AV of 2 Peter 2:12; Jude 1:10 , signifies "without reason," RV, though, as J. Hastings points out, "brute beasts" is not at all unsuitable, as "brute" is from Latin brutus, which means "dull, irrational;" in Acts 25:27 it is rendered "unreasonable."
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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Brute'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ved/b/brute.html. 1940.